Sweco chosen to modernise electrical supply in northern and western Sweden

Sweco has been contracted for extensive engineering design services in connection with construction of new power transmission lines in western Sweden and replacement of old lines in northern Sweden. This will result in a more secure supply of electricity with higher capacity. The client is Svenska kraftnät (the Swedish national grid operator) and the value of the contract is over EUR 4.3 million.

“Several of Sweden’s power lines are old and need to be upgraded. Sweco is playing a clear and important role in developing the more sustainable energy supply of the future. This work will consist among other things of dismantling and replacing parts of the world’s first 400 kV line, which must now be rebuilt due to advanced age and insufficient capacity,” says Erik Severin, President of Sweco Energuide.

In the assignment, Sweco will design power lines in the national grid between the municipalities of Sollefteå and Ragunda and between the municipalities of Trollhättan and Lerum. Sweco will be responsible for detail planning, site surveys, steel and concrete structures and visualisation.

Sweco’s work will begin immediately and will continue until the lines have gone into operation. The new power lines will be ready to go into service in 2018 and 2020, respectively.

For more information contact:

Veronika Gustafsson, Press Officer, Sweco, +46 8-695 65 43, veronika.gustafsson@sweco.se

Sweco is the Nordic region’s leading provider of services for sustainable engineering and design. Together, our 9,000 engineers, architects and environmental experts develop sustainable and value-creating solutions for clients and society. Sweco is one of Europe’s ten largest consulting engineering companies and conducts annual project exports to 80 countries worldwide. The company has annual sales of approximately SEK 9 billion and is listed on Nasdaq OMX Stockholm AB.